Pregnancy rate, calving interval, birth weight, weaning weight, and quarterly BCS were collected for 5 consecutive years on 454 fall-calving multiparous British crossbred cattle (3 to 10 yr of age) to evaluate associations of age with BCS and production parameters. Body weight and BCS were collected pre-calving, prebreeding, at weaning, and midway through the second trimester of pregnancy (Augu...

Some environmental effects, population genetic parameters, breeding value of Limousin bulls, also phenotypic and trends in the age at first calving (AFC) cows between 1992 2013 were estimated. Data served by Blonde d’Aquitaine Breeders Association, Hungary. The study was extended to three herds 1157 cows. GLM method used for different BLUP animal model estimation parameters values (BV), one-way...

the aim of this study was using bayesian approach via gibbs sampling (gs) for estimating genetic parameters of production, reproduction and health traits in iranian holstein cows. data consisted of 320666 first- lactation records of holstein cows from 7696 sires and 260302 dams collected by the animal breeding center of iran from year 1991 to 2010. (co) variance components were estimated using ...

in this study, data comprising 10479 production and reproduction records of razavi khorasan province's dairy cattle, were collected by animal breeding center of iran during 1986 to 2006, were used. genetic parameters were estimated by restricted maximum likelihood procedure using wombat software. genetic and phonotype trends were estimated via linear regression as means genetic and phonotype va...

The objective of this study was to determine the relationships among daughter intramammary infections at first parturition and sire transmitting abilities for somatic cell score, udder type traits, productive life, and protein yield. Quarter milk samples from 958 daughters (in eight Pennsylvania herds and one Nebraska herd) of 182 Holstein sires were collected within a few days of first calving...

A study was carried out to evaluate non genetic factors affecting milk yield and milk composition in Zimbabwean Red Dane and Jersey cattle cattle. A total of 1004 and 10 986 unedited Red Dane and Jersey 305-day lactation records respectively, were obtained from Livestock Identification Trust (LIT) containing 22 herds (1 Red Dane herd and 21 Jersey herds), with Red Dane calving in the period 200...